Yup. I hate grading student work, even though most of what I squeezed out of students this semester looks quite good. Hate it.
So I followed a link that came in with the spam and found my way to College Prof OutSourcerors, a small firm in Bangalore. There they have rooms full of highly educated evaluators who are assigning grades in my three classes for about $4/hour. Since all work is turned in to me electronically and there are rubrics for each assignment, all I had to do was to FTP the student files and give OutSourcerors the course URLs. For $100 per course, I’m getting to watch Stargate SG-1 instead of deciding whether that WebQuest gets a 91 or a 92. Why didn’t I do this years ago?
Well, I wish. But in wistfully looking for such a place (instead of actually grading) I came upon this article about White-collar Poetry Jobs Moving Overseas. Could happen.